Allegedly the JFK assassination plotting began as early as April, 1961, when President Kennedy refused to be stampeded into ordering air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba.
The far right wing theory being that this refusal amounted to "still more" so-called proof that JFK was some kind of commie sympathizer betraying America.
Based on the examination of 250,000 pages of government documents, Newman's 1995 book Oswald and the CIA presents the narrative that the "CIA had a keen operational interest in Lee Harvey Oswald from the day he defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 until the day he was murdered in the basement of the Dallas Police Department."[7] Kirkus Reviews summarized it as: "Exhaustive, tedious, and diffuse, this study eschews sensationalism but threatens death by minutiae."[7] Calling it a "meticulously documented expose" and a "heavily annotated tome", Publishers Weekly said Oswald and the CIA "reads like an intricate spy thriller [and] serves as a corrective to Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale."[8]
Though I'm pretty sure Mailer never said "Oswald's Tale" was proven fact, he did do a lot of research. Since Oswald was a very strange person and very dead, I think his life best drawn by a gifted novelist, such as Mailer. Mailer drew my suspicions to George de Mohrenschildt as possibly involved; his assistance and friendship to Oswald and his wife was almost inexplicable.
Personally, I think the CIA was then and for decades out of Presidential control.
Read the review of John Newman's book - Norman Mailer had no knowledge of the way Oswald's files were handled within the CIA, if he had understood even that part of the history, there's no way he would have invented the character "Lee Harvey Oswald" as such in his fantasy, Oswald's Tale.
Btw Norman Mailer was at least as strange as intel operative Lee Harvey Oswald, and they both share one characteristic: NEITHER of them ever shot at President John F. Kennedy, or Patrolman Jefferson Davis Tippit on November 22, 1963, nor at retired General Edwin Walker back in April of 1963.
Typo: Kennedy was shot in 1963, not 1961.
Allegedly the JFK assassination plotting began as early as April, 1961, when President Kennedy refused to be stampeded into ordering air support for the Bay of Pigs invasion of Castro's Cuba.
The far right wing theory being that this refusal amounted to "still more" so-called proof that JFK was some kind of commie sympathizer betraying America.
https://www.kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-reviews/into-the-storm-by-john-newman
Review of a book on the general topic by a former US military intelligence officer and professor of history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Newman
Oswald and the CIA
Based on the examination of 250,000 pages of government documents, Newman's 1995 book Oswald and the CIA presents the narrative that the "CIA had a keen operational interest in Lee Harvey Oswald from the day he defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 until the day he was murdered in the basement of the Dallas Police Department."[7] Kirkus Reviews summarized it as: "Exhaustive, tedious, and diffuse, this study eschews sensationalism but threatens death by minutiae."[7] Calling it a "meticulously documented expose" and a "heavily annotated tome", Publishers Weekly said Oswald and the CIA "reads like an intricate spy thriller [and] serves as a corrective to Norman Mailer's Oswald's Tale."[8]
Though I'm pretty sure Mailer never said "Oswald's Tale" was proven fact, he did do a lot of research. Since Oswald was a very strange person and very dead, I think his life best drawn by a gifted novelist, such as Mailer. Mailer drew my suspicions to George de Mohrenschildt as possibly involved; his assistance and friendship to Oswald and his wife was almost inexplicable.
Personally, I think the CIA was then and for decades out of Presidential control.
Read the review of John Newman's book - Norman Mailer had no knowledge of the way Oswald's files were handled within the CIA, if he had understood even that part of the history, there's no way he would have invented the character "Lee Harvey Oswald" as such in his fantasy, Oswald's Tale.
Btw Norman Mailer was at least as strange as intel operative Lee Harvey Oswald, and they both share one characteristic: NEITHER of them ever shot at President John F. Kennedy, or Patrolman Jefferson Davis Tippit on November 22, 1963, nor at retired General Edwin Walker back in April of 1963.
"The evidence is the conspiracy."